threatned to teare mee in peeces, if I namde God, to fetch both body and soule, if I once gaue eare to diuinitie: and now tis too late: Gentlemen away, lest you perish with me. 2. Sch. O what shal we do to (saue) Faustus ? 1406 Faustus. Talke not of me, but saue your selues, and depart.

3. Sch. God wil strengthen me, I wil stay with Faustus. 1. Sch. Tempt not God, sweete friend, but let vs into the next roome, and there pray for him.

1411

Fau. I, pray for me, pray for me, and what noyse soeuer yee heare, come not vnto me, for nothing can rescue me. 2. Sch. Pray thou, and we wil pray that God may haue mercy vpon thee.

1415

Fau. Gentlemen farewel, if I liue til morning, Ile visite you if not, Faustus is gone to hel.

All. Faustus, farewel.

The clocke strikes eleauen.

Exeunt Sch.

Fau. Ah Faustus,

Now hast thou but one bare hower to liue,
And then thou must be damnd perpetually:
Stand stil you euer moouing spheres of heauen,
That time may cease, and midnight neuer come :
Faire Natures eie, rise, rise againe, and make
Perpetuall day, or let this houre be but

1420

1425

A yeere, a moneth, a weeke, a naturall day,

That Faustus may repent, and saue his soule,

O lente, lente curite noctis equi:

The starres mooue stil, time runs, the clocke wil strike,
The diuel wil come, and Faustus must be damnd.
O Ile leape vp to my God: who pulles me downe?
See see where Christs blood streames in the firmament.
One drop would saue my soule, halfe a drop, ah my Christ.
Ah rend not my heart for naming of my Christ,
Yet wil I call on him: oh spare me Lucifer!

1430

1404 both] me 1616-63 1406 shal] may 1616-63 1411 there om. 1611-63

1435

1405 tis] saue add. 1413 yee] you

1403 God] Heaven 1663 'ts 1616: it is 1620-63 1616-63, Dyce etc. 1616-63 1418+New passage of 48 lines add. 1616-63; cf. Appendix, pp. 227-9 1419 Ah 1604-11: O 1616-63 1430 damnd] lost 1663 1431 to my God 1604: vnto my God 1609, 1611: to God Brey.: to heauen 1616-63 1432 om. 1616 1432-4 om. 1663 1433 would . . ah] of bloud will saue me; oh 1616-31 1434 Ah om. 1616-31, Wag., Brey. 1435 him] it 1663 Lucifer om. 1663

Where is it now? tis gone: And see where God
Stretcheth out his arme, and bends his irefull browes:
Mountaines and hilles, come, come, and fall on me,
And hide me from the heauy wrath of God.

No, no.

Then wil I headlong runne into the earth :
Earth gape. O no, it wil not harbour me :
You starres that raignd at my natiuitie,
Whose influence hath alotted death and hel,
Now draw vp Faustus like a foggy mist,
Into the intrailes of yon labring cloude,
That when you vomite foorth into the ayre,
My limbes may issue from your smoaky mouthes,
So that my soule may but ascend to heauen:
Ah, halfe the houre is past :

Twil all be past anone:

Oh God,

1440

1445

The watch strikes.

If thou wilt not haue mercy on my soule,

Yet for Christs sake, whose bloud hath ransomd me,
Impose some end to my incessant paine.
Let Faustus liue in hel a thousand yeeres,

1451

1455

A hundred thousand, and at last be sau'd.
O no end is limited to damned soules,

Why wert thou not a creature wanting soule ?
Or, why is this immortall that thou hast ?
Ah Pythagoras metemsucosis, were that true,
This soule should flie from me, and I be changde
Vnto some brutish beast: al beasts are happy,
For when they die,

1460

Their soules are soone dissolud in elements,
But mine must liue still to be plagde in hel :
Curst be the parents that ingendred me:
No Faustus, curse thy selfe, curse Lucifer,

1465

That hath depriude thee of the ioyes of heauen:

The clocke striketh twelue.

1437 out

1440 no

1444 yon] your

1436-7 And see . browes 1604-11: And see a threatning Arme, an (and 1624, 1631) angry Brow 1616-31: om. 1663 1604: forth 1609, 1611 1439 God] heauen 1616-63 om. 1616-63 1442 Earth gape] Gape earth 1616-63 hath] haue 1619-31 1446 intrailes] entrance 1611 1620-63 clouds 1663, Dyce, Ward 1448 your] their conj. Dyce mount, and 1616-63 Dyce 1450 Ah] O 1616-63 63 have O, if my soule must 1616-63, Wag., Brey. 63 1469 S.D. clooke 1604

1447 you] they conj. Dyce 1449 So . . but] But let my soule 1450 S.D. The clock strikes the half-hour 1452-4 Instead of these lines Qq 1616suffer for my sinne, 1458 O om. 1462 I] Ile 1663 1463 Vnto] Into 1616striketh] strikes 1611-63

1470

O it strikes, it strikes: now body turne to ayre,
Or Lucifer wil beare thee quicke to hel:
Thunder and lightning.

O soule, be changde into little water drops,
And fal into the Ocean, nere be found:
My God, my God, looke not so fierce on me :
Enter diuels.

Adders, and Serpents, let me breathe a while :
Vgly hell gape not, come not Lucifer,

1475

Ile burne my bookes, ah Mephastophilis. (Exeunt with him. Enter Chorus.

(Chor.) Cut is the branch that might haue growne ful

straight,

And burned is Apolloes Laurel bough,

That sometime grew within this learned man :
Faustus is gone, regard his hellish fall,

1480

Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise,
Onely to wonder at vnlawful things,

Whose deepenesse doth intise such forward wits,

To practise more than heauenly power permits.
Terminat hora diem, Terminat Author opus.

1485

1470 O om. 1616-63

1471 S.D. om. 1616-63

1472 little]

small 1616-63 1474 My God, my God] O mercy heauen 1616-63 1474 S.D. Thunder, and enter the deuils after 1473 1616-63 ah] Oh 1616-63 1477 S.D. Exeunt 1616: om. 1619-63 +18 new lines add. 1616-63; cf. Appendix, p. 229 add. 1611-63

1477

1477

1485+ FINIS

APPENDIX TO DR. FAUSTUS

Instead of 11. 351-432, the quartos of 1616-63 have the following:

Enter Wagner and the Clowne.

Wag. Come hither sirra boy.

351

Clo. Boy? O disgrace to my person: Zounds boy in your face, you haue seene many boyes with beards, I am sure. Wag. Sirra, hast thou no commings in ? Clow. Yes, and goings out too, you may see sir.

355

Wag. Alas poore slaue, see how pouerty iests in his nakednesse, I know the Villaines out of seruice, and so hungry, that I know he would giue his soule to the deuill for a shoulder of Mutton, tho it were bloud raw.

Clo. Not so neither; I had need to haue it well rosted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so deere, I can tell you.

361

Wag. Sirra, wilt thou be my man and waite on me? and I will make thee go, like Qui mihi discipulus.

365

Clow. What, in Verse?

Wag. No slaue, in beaten silke, and staues-aker.

Clow. Staues-aker? that's good to kill Vermine: then, belike if I serue you, I shall be lousy.

Wag. Why so thou shalt be, whether thou dost it or no : for sirra, if thou dost not presently bind thy selfe to me for seuen yeares, I'le turne all the lice about thee into Familiars, and make them tare thee in peeces.

371

Clow. Nay sir, you may saue your selfe a labour, for they are as familiar with me, as if they payd for their meate and drinke, I can tell you.

Wag. Well sirra, leaue your iesting, and take these Guilders. (Gives money.)

Clow. Yes marry sir, and I thanke you to. 376 Wag. So, now thou art to bee at an howres warning, whensoeuer, and wheresoeuer the deuill shall fetch thee. Clow. Here, take your Guilders, I'le none of 'em. Wag. Not I, thou art prest, prepare thy selfe, for I will presently raise vp two deuils to carry thee away: Banio, Belcher.

354 Sirra om. 1620-63

aker] stauracin or stauracia conj. Tancock

355 Yes om. 1663

372 saue] spare 1631, 1663

379 Guilders 1616:

365 staues369 not om. 1663 Guilders againe

Clow. Belcher ? and Belcher come here, I'le belch him: I am not afraid of a deuill.

Enter 2 deuils.

Wag. How now sir, will you serue me now?

Clow. I good Wagner, take away the deuill then.
Wag. Spirits away; now sirra follow me.

384

Clow. I will sir; but hearke you Maister, will you teach me this coniuring Occupation?

Wag. I sirra, I'le teach thee to turne thy selfe to a Dog, or a Cat, or a Mouse, or a Rat, or any thing.

391

Clow. A Dog, or a Cat, or a Mouse, or a Rat? O braue Wagner.

Wag. Villaine, call me Maister Wagner, and see that you walke attentiuely, and let your right eye be alwaies Diametrally fixt vpon my left heele, that thou maist, Quasi vestigias nostras insistere.

Clow. Well sir, I warrant you.

397 Exeunt.

After line 791, Qq 1616–63 insert the following scene not found in Qq 1604-11:

Enter the Clowne.

(Clown.) What Dick, looke to the horses there till I come againe. I haue gotten one of Doctor Faustus coniuring bookes, and now we'le haue such knauery, as't passes.

Enter Dick.

Dick. What Robin, you must come away & walk the

horses.

796

Rob. I walke the horses? I scorn't 'faith, I haue other matters in hand, let the horses walk themselues and they will. (Reads) A perse a, t. h. e the: o per se o deny orgon, gorgon : keepe further from me O thou illiterate, and vnlearned Hostler. Dick. 'Snayles, what hast thou got there, a book? why thou canst not tell ne're a word on't.

802

Rob. That thou shalt see presently: keep out of the circle, I say, least I send you into the Ostry with a vengeance. Dick. That's like 'faith: you had best leaue your foolery, for an my Maister come, he'le coniure you 'faith.

806

Rob. My Maister coniure me? I'le tell thee what, an my Maister come here, I'le clap as faire a paire of hornes on's head as e're thou sawest in thy life.

386 devils Dyce, Cunn. after away

387+s.D. Exeunt Devils add. Dyce

396-7 vestigiis nostris Dyce, Cunn.

791 S.D. Enter the Clowne] Enter Robin with a book Dyce 'faith 1616 ifaith 1619-63 o per he e, veni 1663

806 ifaith 1619-63

797

o deny]

799 S.D. Reads add. Dyce 802 not om. 1619 not tell om. 1620-63 808 as faire a 1616: a fayre 1619–63